Word: carat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theatre, William Had the Words! has problems, the book, the first act, the actors' enunciations, and some of the dialogue come quickly to mind. This is all most unfortunate, because some high carat diamonds are buried in the acres of clay...
...Little Horse. Expensive apartment houses are concentrating more and more on the bathroom as an index of how luxurious they are. San Francisco's brand-new building at 2555 Leavenworth Street has 24-carat gold-plated faucets and toilet bowls in eight of its apartments. The bathrooms in Fifth Avenue's newest co-op deluxe, 812 Fifth Avenue (apartment prices range from $48,600 to $200,900), have marble floors and walls, and in each of the shower stalls there is a special spout a few inches off the floor for pretesting the water with a tentative...
Strong words? Perhaps. But consider the carat of the films displayed at the first New York Film Festival. The program was restricted to new pictures never before seen in the U.S., but the festival's director found a score of excellent shorts and half a dozen top-chop features. Among them...
...young seminarian has become wildly infatuated with her, and is about to give up his studies for the priesthood. But Sophia Loren, 28, playing a 14-carat call girl in Vittorio De Sica's afilming trilogy, Yesterday, Today...
...diamond season at Murfreesboro, Ark., opened early this spring when word got around that Fred Wood, a sawmill worker from Chidester. had found a ten-carat stone. It ought to bring $8,000, says Wood, and it is not the only diamond that he has found. "I don't do no digging,'' he says. "I just walk and look." He plans to name his find the Orval E. Faubus diamond, for his state's Governor...